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The magic lifted her as gently as though she were a note of music and it were singing her.

Her [the unicorn's] trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.

"There is no immortality but a tree's love."

"I have never seen anyone like you, not while I was awake. There were supposed to be a few unicorns left when I was a boy, but I knew only one man who had ever seen one. They are surely gone, lady, all but you. When you walk, you make an echo where they used to be."

'But another sound followed them long after these [sounds] had faded, followed them into morning on a strange road -- the tiny, dry sound of a spider weeping.'